Stelson used those contacts to find Tadahiro Motomura, the grandson of the Japanese military officer who once owned the sword ... he was on a ship during World War II, ready to take part in ...

It is a scene from World War II ... of the swords lacked the craftsmanship of the earlier katanas, the swords still proved quite deadly. In 1937 during Japan’s campaign in China, two officers ...

Amdahl said he was on a ship during World War II, ready to take part ... the grandson of the Japanese military officer who once owned the sword. “It’s a miracle — a testament to people ...

Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.

Tomesuke Umeki, an officer in the Imperial ... coast of the Korean Peninsula when Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945. The U.S. military confiscated his sword. Cursor found the sword among seized ...

bearing on one side the figure of a flying Japanese pursued by several "crinolines," their pathway barred by an American naval officer with drawn sword; in a very small space beneath, the head of ...